Is now illegal in the State of Washington. Fortunately, our local Sheriff has a lot of common sense and issued this memo:
In response to Governor Inslee’s press release yesterday, we are fielding a lot of questions about what you can expect from the Island County Sheriff’s Office during the governors statewide mask mandate.
Our position hasn’t changed since our last post on the topic.
Our priority is the safety of the public. During COVID-19 restrictions, we will be focusing on educating people on how to best help keep themselves, their families, and our communities safe, especially our most vulnerable members.
When deputies encounter people who are not complying with the governor’s order, we will remind them of the current restrictions and the reasons for them with a goal of education and voluntary participation as we all work to reduce the impact of this virus.
We have no desire to be arrest or ticket anyone for violations of the current restrictions.
Perfect. I like our Sheriff a lot - really good people. He was elected in 2018 and hope that he serves for as long as he wants to.
Our Governor? Not so much - from NOQ Report:
Gov. Jay Inslee invokes 1st Amendment to defy his own face mask mandate. We should, too.
Washington Governor Jay Inslee may be the least self-aware politician in America. We can ridicule people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or shake our heads in disbelief at former Vice President Joe Biden, but even the intellectual lightweight from New York and the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee with mental acuity issues have reasons for being the way they are. Inslee has no excuse. He’s not stupid. He’s not suffering from dementia. He just lacks an understanding of why his own rules don’t apply to him.
The incident that prompted this critique happened earlier this week during an outdoor press conference when the basically made the case for people to ignore his executive order to wear masks at all times in public. It doesn’t matter if you’re indoors or outdoors. It doesn’t matter if you’re properly social distancing. According to Inslee’s order, only the very young or those who can prove wearing a face mask might kill them are exempt.
But that’s not what he did during the press conference. He removed his mask because he was outside despite not allowing other citizens in his state to have such a privilege. He removed his mask because he was social distancing despite that not being an exemption listed in his executive order. Then, he had the nerve to claim he was doing so because of the 1st Amendment.
His likely intention was to erroneously claim that freedom of the press meant he was obligated to make sure media members heard him, but that’s not how it was received. Instead, citizens of Washington took to social media to claim their own exemption based on the 1st Amendment. Even left-leaning local media had to scratch their collective heads and inquire about the apparent contradiction.
The core problem here:
The reality of face mask mandates is they have very little to do with keeping people healthy and much more to do with leftist politicians flexing their authoritarian muscles. This is why they break their own rules when they become inconvenient.
Exactly. This is about power and politics, not about public health. I will be carrying a fabric mask with me and will wear it if there is a Karen around. I am also planning to wear one of my welding masks - a little bit of reductio ad absurdum. The mask in question is for wearing under a hard hat - here is a photo:
I will be wearing it minus the blue hood. Quite the fashion statement...
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